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>I’m not sure this is the newest trend in landspam, but this picture turned up in the mail, unexpected and uncommented. I hadn’t done my good deed for the day that early, so I’m not sure what I’ve done to … Continue reading →

> Picked this up from Pprune – primarily a forum for professional pilots, but nevertheless a good source of background information/gossip/slander/pure lies about the industry. And a great place for excellent line-shoots. Such as: A Hunter sqn in Aden Sqn … Continue reading →

>I like books. I enjoy reading, but it’s the tactile and visual experience that I really like. And this is a very nice book.It’s from Phaidon Press and is subtitled “New Perspectives in Photography” The cover looks like the Periodic … Continue reading →

>Only a matter of time before this one raised its ugly head….. Take1 faded MGB2 cousins1 Saturday afternoonGallons of cutting compound2 power buffers1 flying helmet1 hard hat1 floatation vest1 RAF flying suit1 “Take a German bird out tonight” t-shirt (Lufthansa’s … Continue reading →

>This chappy reminds me of those amateur UFO films – shaky focussing on an unfamiliar blobby object and then wild panning to try to stay with it as it blasts away across the night sky at the speeed of light. … Continue reading →

>Crap year for tomatoes. Heat wave in June and July (so everything hibernated) Cold and wet in August (so nothing grew) Really nice since then So we’re a fair way behind the growing curve, they’ve stopped ripening and they don’t … Continue reading →

>Here’s a nifty little thingy, courtesy of David Pogue at the New York Times (who’s definitely worth reading for the serious stuff, too). I have no clue what it’s good for, but it looks quite cool. (Someone will say “It’s … Continue reading →

>Just look what I dug up. I’ve had the paper carbon-dated by the fine folk at the Gutenberg Museum and it’s definitely last millenium – probably even dating back to the late 1960’s. Unburned hydrocarbon particles place it somewhere in … Continue reading →

> “Aren’t we lucky people!”That’s what John Whatley would say. He says that quite frequently, in fact. We’re lucky, too. Here in Somewhere In, we’re pretty close to Mainz which – apart fromThe Best CathedralThe Best RiverThe Best Roman RuinsThe … Continue reading →

>iSquint is just the coolest (Mac) app – converts pretty much any video clip (like YouTubes) to iPod/iTune format, faster than QuickTime Pro and – (so goes the blurb) “is infinitely freer”. I like free.Freer I like even better. But … Continue reading →